Top Tools to Run a Virtual Marketing and Public Relations Campaign
When it comes to innovative tools to help entrepreneurs and businesses build and operate their company, there is an embarrassment of riches that we can take advantage of. I wrote earlier in the year about tools you can use when starting up your own business, and...
The Parent Trap: The Challenge of Balancing Work and Home, and how Family-Oriented Benefits Can Help
Paul Ryan, recently elected Speaker of the House, unexpectedly turned media attention to the issue of balancing work and family life. Reluctant to take the post due to the fundraising and travel time associated with the position, Ryan insisted on being allowed to...
Built to Win: What MLB’s Playoff Teams Can Teach You About Good Management
We already know this much about this year’s World Series champion – it will be an underdog. The American League Championship Series features the Toronto Blue Jays, whose appearance in the post-season ended a 20+ year drought, and the Kansas City Royals are trying to...
Management Insights for a World Gone Virtual
Technology does not impact our lives immediately, but in stages. The internal combustion engine-powered automobile was invented in the late 19th Century, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that the proliferation of automobile ownership resulted in droves of Americans...
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Spreadsheets: The Importance of Visual Learning in Business
By now it is commonly known that people learn and understand information in different ways. Many people identify with the “visual learner” category (including this author) and according to research 65% of the population are visual learners. Fortunately there is wealth...
9 Ways to Make Urban Living Easy
Living the cosmopolitan lifestyle is not as easy as it looks. There’s hardly enough time to get ready in the morning or watch Last Week with John Oliver, let alone go to all the restaurants, bars, concerts, museums, and baseball games that you had planned on. Every...
Who Asked It: Job Interviewer or Weird Guy on the Subway?
Anybody that has participated in job interviews, either as the interviewer or the interviewee, knows that they are of limited utility. From the perspective of the interviewer, job interviews can certainly raise red flags that warn you off hiring somebody, but they...
Remote Control: Top Considerations When Creating an Employee Telecommuting Policy
Much has been written about the benefits of telecommuting for both employers and employees. Allowing employees to work remotely helps recruit and retain top talent, increases productivity for those that work better alone, and helps efforts to combat global warming...
Going Green and Saving Green: Creating a More Environmentally Friendly and Profitable Business
Here in San Francisco, Earth Day comes at a particularly sensitive time. California is enduring a multi-year drought and the typical winter rainy season has brought virtually no snow to the Sierras or water to reservoirs. The state is drafting water reduction rules...
Top Employee Benefits and Perks that Won’t Break the Bank
It’s a great job market out there in many industries, particularly the tech industry, and with that comes the fierce race to attract and retain employees with competitive benefits packages and perks. Not since the dot com era have we seen companies offer such...